Bigotry isn't always about hating a group of people for no reason. Often it's about not letting them make as many mistakes as priviledged people. Often it's about assuming malicious intent automatically. It is about not giving marginalised people as much leeway in what is acceptable and what is not. It's about holding them to a higher standard and punishing them more harshly for the same mistakes.

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 23, 2019, 02:00

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**Detective Fin** @icetsvu@botsin.space · Dec 23, 2019, 02:00

Dec 23, 2019, 02:00

Detective Fin @icetsvu@botsin.space

Mermaid Quake

Medical examiner says she was wacked out on some new drug called Mermaid Quake. Found her naked in a conference room screamin' "The beekeepers made me do it!"

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**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 22, 2019, 22:48

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**Darkwizardjamesmason** @Darkwizardjamesmason@mastodon.social · Dec 22, 2019, 22:48

Dec 22, 2019, 22:48

Darkwizardjamesmason @Darkwizardjamesmason@mastodon.social

Eugenics mention

Broke: Geroge Lucas ruined star wars because he made bad movies.

Woke: Disney Ruined star wars because they made it pro eugenics.

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 22, 2019, 22:00

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**garfield** @garfiald@mastodon.social · Dec 22, 2019, 22:00

Dec 22, 2019, 22:00

garfield @garfiald@mastodon.social

people who read books: i think my favourite author is brilliant, but only thanks to the writers that influenced them and the resources that were available to them at the time as well as their generalised culture of course.

people who watch movies: my favourite director, whose movies hundreds of other people worked on, is a god king who can do no wrong

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 22, 2019, 21:40

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 22, 2019, 21:40

Dec 22, 2019, 21:40

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

weight talk

#fatboyfall has officially turned to #fatboywinter

Thank goodness I have built up a layer of warm, soft, protective chub, as part of the natural cycle of things

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 22, 2019, 21:17

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**Mads "Out of Service" Viande** @byttyrs@radical.town · Dec 22, 2019, 21:17

Dec 22, 2019, 21:17

Mads "Out of Service" Viande @byttyrs@radical.town

one thing you really gotta respect about those cinema buffs, they spend a lot of time watching movies they know upfront that they will not enjoy

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 22, 2019, 20:30

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**Mads "Out of Service" Viande** @byttyrs@radical.town · Dec 22, 2019, 20:30

Dec 22, 2019, 20:30

Mads "Out of Service" Viande @byttyrs@radical.town

what is leftism? a fandom, right?

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 22, 2019, 17:45

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**Sophie Jane** @ghost_bird@cybre.space · Dec 22, 2019, 17:45

Dec 22, 2019, 17:45

Sophie Jane @ghost_bird@cybre.space

Lambeth.

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 22, 2019, 17:40

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 22, 2019, 17:40

Dec 22, 2019, 17:40

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

Deliberately doing a bad job painting my nails to queer the concepts of "looking good" and "not being a hot mess"

**orthogonal to alive** · Nov 04, 2018, 14:41

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**Maddie Died And Went To Cryptids** @picklemaddierix@deadinsi.de · Nov 04, 2018, 14:41

Nov 04, 2018, 14:41

Maddie Died And Went To Cryptids @picklemaddierix@deadinsi.de

COWBOY DAN, WHILE FIRING HIS RIFLE IN THE SKY: God if i have to die you will have to die!!!
GOD: Who The Hell Is That
ANGEL: that's Cowboy Dan, sir. he's a major player in the cowboy scene
GOD: What

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 22, 2019, 17:18

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**melissa is on monads** @melissasage@radical.town · Dec 22, 2019, 17:18

Dec 22, 2019, 17:18

melissa is on monads @melissasage@radical.town

i wish nerds cared about anything even 1/10th as much as they care about spoilers

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 22, 2019, 17:29

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 22, 2019, 17:29

Dec 22, 2019, 17:29

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

pedophilia, sexual abuse

Sometimes I wonder why I get so frightened and avoidant when people show romantic/sexual attention to me, and then I remember my adoptive family just shrugged their shoulders and let this person stay in my life for two decades.

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 22, 2019, 17:26

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 22, 2019, 17:26

Dec 22, 2019, 17:26

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

pedophilia, sexual abuse

I was not conscious of hating them for being pervy.

I just didn't like them touching my butt all the time, staring at me dreamily, grabbing me to kiss me, and demanding they be allowed to wash me or come into the bathroom while I was trying to use the toilet.

In my child-brain, with no concept of perviness, this was just them being a loathsome and annoying person I didn't want anywhere near me.

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 22, 2019, 17:21

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 22, 2019, 17:21

Dec 22, 2019, 17:21

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

pedophilia, sexual abuse

https://medium.com/survivors/the-stages-of-sexual-grooming-every-parent-should-know-6e98fb444f9f

Reading this article and realizing that I was groomed very incompetently as a child. They forgot the step where the child has to not fucking hate you for being a perv.

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 21, 2019, 07:15

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**Mads "Out of Service" Viande** @byttyrs@radical.town · Dec 21, 2019, 07:15

Dec 21, 2019, 07:15

Mads "Out of Service" Viande @byttyrs@radical.town

when in this charming donk
this charming #Ass
why ponder life's complexities
when the skin runs smooth on the #AssMan's seat

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 22, 2019, 17:00

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 22, 2019, 17:00

Dec 22, 2019, 17:00

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

Disappointed that G. B. Jones' Tom Girls series, featuring lesbian versions of Tom of Finland illustrations, does not go all-in depicting the girls as beefy leather hunks.